Kobo Books - eBooks Audiobooks

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3.05L reviews
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Teen
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About this app

Your library, always with you:

Step into a world of words and voices with the Kobo Books App, your ultimate companion for reading and listening. Designed with booklovers in mind, this app transforms your device into your own digital library, capable of carrying millions of eBooks and audiobooks with you anywhere.

With access to browse millions of eBooks and audiobooks, there's something for every reader to discover and enjoy. Our growing collection spans every genre imaginable: from thrilling mysteries and captivating romances to insightful nonfiction, imaginative fantasy, vibrant graphic novels, classic comics, and enchanting children's stories. Explore our selection with ease and search effortlessly by author, title, topic, or genre. Enjoy a truly integrated library experience, keeping all your eBooks and audiobooks perfectly organized in one place.

Want to know what's popular? Our most trending eBooks are updated hourly.

Discover more reading and listening with Kobo Plus:

Where endless reading sprees begin, Kobo Plus offers unlimited access to more than 3 million eBooks and 400,000 audiobooks. Discover exclusive originals and hidden gems you won't find anywhere else. Choose the perfect plan that meets your reading needs with plans offering limitless access to eBooks, audiobooks, or both. Enjoy total flexibility with zero commitments.

An app designed for your comfort and convenience:

The Kobo Books App was created to make every moment with your stories as enjoyable and effortless as possible:

• Tailor your experience by adjusting text size and style, or activate Night Mode to enjoy comfortable, eye-friendly reading. Choose to set your screen to portrait or landscape for ultimate comfort.

• Listen effortlessly with our intuitive audiobook player, allowing you to navigate, pause, and track your progress with ease. Plus, easily set a sleep timer for perfect bedtime listening.

• Pick up where you left off, without ever losing your spot. Your reading progress automatically syncs between the Kobo Books App, Kobo Web Reader, and your Kobo eReader, letting you read across all your devices.

• Enjoy reading books in your preferred language, with support for English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.

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**Audiobooks available only in select countries. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.
One home for all your eBooks and audiobooks.
Updated on
5 Aug 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • This app may share these data types with third parties
    App activity
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, App activity and 2 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

2.38L reviews
David Mowry
15 September 2025
Used to be a great app. Since the last update though, it's very hard to use. The links for footnotes no longer appear to work. When you open a book, it automatically turns the screen brightness up to maximum, which makes it almost impossible to look at because it's so bright. You can't turn the brightness down either because it somehow overrides the phone settings. None of the settings seem to allow you to change any of this and re-installing it didn't do anything.
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Kobo Books
15 September 2025
Hello! We are sorry to hear that you are having this experience with the Kobo app. Please try to repair your account. To receive further support, please provide photos or videos through a message on our Facebook page or contact our support team at www.kobo.com/help. Thank you so much!
Opal
16 July 2026
I did a trial subscription. it took a little too much work to browse audiobook genres. the ad said "no credits needed" then I look and see you need a *credit* to listen to anything or pay full price for the book. canceling was crazy hard. I ended up having to delete my account because I did not have a purchase receipt. it was a *trial* subscription all in all not worth the time or energy. so many other apps that work better.
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Kobo Books
16 July 2026
Hi, we are sorry to hear you’ve had issues in cancelling your subscription. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to us via Facebook or our support team via chat at http://kobo.com/help. We are always happy to help!
Angie McArthur
20 June 2026
The Kobo app needs some work, especially the audiobooks. It freezes when I try to listen to back to back samples. I have to power off my phone in order for audiobooks to finish downloading. The app will show that a book is on chapter one when it's really on chapter nine. I have to close the app and reopen it for the app to catch up. I've learned not to pause a book and press play when it gets stuck on a chapter because it starts the book over.
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Kobo Books
20 June 2026
Hi! We're sorry to hear that you're experiencing issues with your Kobo App. Please try uninstalling and then reinstalling the app. If you need any further assistance, feel free to reach out to us through our Facebook page or contact our support team at www.kobo.com/help. We are always happy to help!

What's new

For our passionate readers who love books as much as we do, we update the Kobo Books app as often as possible to continually improve on its reliability and performance.

Here's what's new in our latest release:

• Bug fixes and general improvements.

Thanks for reading with Kobo Books!